The Derby Picks

okjac12okjac12 Senior Member
edited April 2012 in Horse Racing Forum
I Think the Derby is WIDE OPEN!!
Trinninberg, Union Rags, Bodemeister, all have a chance I'm picking a longshot Like last year with Animal Kingdom!!:sweatdrop:

Comments

  • SirBearSirBear Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    It's a lot of fun to speculate about how the Derby will shape out, but my unsolicited advice to you is not to bother trying to analyze the race until 48-72 hours before the running, after the post position draw has been set.

    So much will happen between now and the first Saturday in May. We haven't even had the Bluegrass or the Arky Derby, or the Lexington Sakes. Horses you think are headed to Louisville will scratch and horses you aren't even thinking about now will suddenly look plausible after they run big in their last prep and train gangbuster in Louisville.

    Not to take away your fun, but it's a waste of time to try and handicap the race right now. Then again, I suppose it is a fun time waster if you have nothing better to do.

    The race itself is a total crapshoot and will be decided by luck as much as who the best horse is.
  • DiscreetCatDiscreetCat Moderator
    edited April 2012
    Agree completely, except with regard to future wagering, of course.
  • drbillymdrbillym Junior Member
    edited April 2012
    So take Went the Day Well, same connections as AK
  • KP-HR2k9KP-HR2k9 Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    fun is fun anyway is play,, before, during ,after
    The race itself is a total crapshoot and will be decided by luck as much as who the best horse is.

    i know luck wont play a part on the 1st. week of May.Is about who"s the best Horse.,
    right now the Best Horse is IMO-Gemologist :cool2:
  • okjac12okjac12 Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    You are oh so correct!! I am not Hadicapping the Derby this early, but based on the preliminariary races, it seems anybody can win. Look at the winner of the Louisiana Derby, Could you make a case for that winner other than "horse for the course"?
  • SirBearSirBear Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    I hope people agree with you. I'm going to violate my own advice by saying Gemoligist is a complete throw-out on Derby Day. Union Rags is best. But let's see how they train in the weeks leading up to the race.
  • FlyinLateFlyinLate Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    The way I've come to approach the Derby is to have a handful of contenders I like going in to the upcoming weeks of the Derby and then to do my elimintations.

    For now, the horses I am monitoring for odds, workouts, injuries, etc:
    -I'll Have Another (Still live in future @ 25-1)
    -Done Talking (Like him to pick up derby pieces at huge price)
    -Bodemeister
    -Union Rags

    A few more may come or go in upcoming weeks, but that is who I currently have my eye on.
  • KP-HR2k9KP-HR2k9 Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    SirBear wrote: »
    I hope people agree with you. I'm going to violate my own advice by saying Gemoligist is a complete throw-out on Derby Day. Union Rags is best. But let's see how they train in the weeks leading up to the race.

    lol:yes: the only other horse i ever was said was the best, was the Queen Zenyatta....
    but that's in another era , now we in the future and Gemologist is #1, U.R don't have another gear like Gemologist :clap:
  • SirBearSirBear Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    Gemologist was looking around for a horse van escort in the final eighth on Saturday. He almost got caught by a horse that had one of the most horrdenous trips you will ever see, a horse that Union Rags trounced by 5 lengths last year.

    I know, comparisons are silly, but still.

    Zenyatta? Dude, please don't mention Gemologist in the same breath as Zenyatta...for goodness sakes!!
  • KP-HR2k9KP-HR2k9 Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    SirBear wrote: »
    Gemologist was looking around for a horse van escort in the final eighth on Saturday. He almost got caught by a horse that had one of the most horrdenous trips you will ever see, a horse that Union Rags trounced by 5 lengths last year.

    I know, comparisons are silly, but still.

    Zenyatta? Dude, please don't mention Gemologist in the same breath as Zenyatta...for goodness sakes!!

    why he's Flawless , and he's up and coming, we are looking @the next Triple Crown Winnner :cool2:

    in his last race he had 2more gears 1to jump in front, and the other to finish who ever was coming, he's like a machine.... i can't wait U.R is is good but Gemologist is Great..

    lol i'm Hyping up the derby :yes:
  • MikenyceMikenyce Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    To be a bit bias hoping thats either Take Charge Indy or Alpha! :)
  • KP-HR2k9KP-HR2k9 Senior Member
    edited April 2012
    Mikenyce wrote: »
    To be a bit bias hoping thats either Take Charge Indy or Alpha! :)
    mmm they are aight,not like the King GEMOLOGIST he's Superb.

    Down the stretch they come GEMOLOGIST by 3,GEMOLOGIST by 4 FINISH THEM GEMOLOGIST YEAHHH:yes: your looking@the next King of Sports GEMOLOGIST:cool2:

    LOL
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